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Word: mueller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to investigate U. S. Nazis. Using the sleuthing methods he had learned as an agent of the U. S. Narcotic Bureau, he picked for the Nazi-hunt the Times's German-born Real Estate Editor John Metcalfe, his brother James, an old G-man, and William A. Mueller, a seasoned newsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chicago Thorn | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...last month): As he has done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...week later): The Coroner in two days receives 500 telephone calls demanding an investigation, many a hot letter, "the greatest storm of public protest and public interest I have ever seen." Agents Kelly & Regan are haled before the Coroner's jury. An eyewitness testifies that after Mueller fell, Agent Kelly jumped on his legs & feet, Regan on his head; that the two men waited for the police only after heated persuasion by witnesses: that at the station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Sonja as Greta Mueller is the daughter of the keeper of a small Swiss chalet. Her father, accused of professionalism after winning the 1908 Olympics, has trained his daughter for twelve years in the hope that she might win the award which he "won and lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Reader Mueller has been lucky. It is true that Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales, began teasing the present Queen Elizabeth by calling her "Queen Elizabeth" directly after she married the Duke of York in 1923. TIME reported the practice May 9, 1932. For years a few people in England took half-seriously the report that Edward might decide never to come to the throne, but available evidence indicates that nobody expected Edward to become King and then make such a mess as to render abdication his cleanest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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